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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Introducing Reversed: From Woke to Awake 0:10 Well, we welcome you to this series called reversed. Reverse from culturally woke to biblically awake. My name is Jim Garlow, and I am elated. You've joined us for this video0:22 series, and we hope you make it through all of them. There are 60 chapters in the book, so there's 60 short videos. We're delighted you're a part of it. Here's a little bit of the background. Several years ago, I wrote a0:34 book called Well Versed. Well Versed lays out the biblical foundations to 30 political topics. Its subtitle is Biblical Answers to Today's Tough Issues. But that was clear back0:46 in 20 16. A lot has happened since 20 16. And so now the response is a new book. This is not simply an update of this. This is part 2 of Well Versed. Well versed0:58 covers a lot of topics. Reversed repeats very few of them. It's a lot of new topics. 60 chapters, almost that many political topics. And it's from1:09 culturally woke to biblically awake. I thank God that the reversed, and well versed have been moved into other languages as well. This is out in Spanish and Portuguese.1:22 It's also out in Albanian and Hungarian. Reversed is out in Spanish and Portuguese. It's coming out in Armenian as well as Hungarian, and we praise a number of other1:33 languages. Now in addition to the book Reversed, we have, of all things, a children's coloring book that goes with it. The children's coloring book has 60 pages.1:45 This has 60 chapters. Each chapter has a respective coloring theme for children so you can teach biblical principles of governance to your children. So page 10 in the1:57 coloring book goes with chapter 10 in the book. That way, it can be kind of a family experience. Age appropriate, a lot of delicate topics we covered here, but to help deposit the2:09 word of God deep within your children. Now this book is an encyclopedia. That means you don't have to read it from start to finish. You can if you want to, and a lot of people do. But if you'll just go through the table2:20 of contents immediately and take a look at the topics, it covers a lot of topics. So it's like an encyclopedia. You can go to any chapter you want and read it in any particular order. Let me just2:32 share some other things that are available also. Our website if you wanna get more copies of the book, you can go to our website, well versed world dot org. Well versed world dot org. And when you go there,2:44 you can pick up copies of the book. The book is 27 dollars because it's a 500 page book. But if you'll buy a case of it, we'll sell it to you for 6 dollars if you will get it out immediately to your pastor, to your2:55 coworkers, to your elected officials, to your children, to your grandchildren. Why? We wanna save the nation. What will save the nation? The word of God. The truth of God's word. So we drop that3:07 price way down for the purpose of trying to get it out as far as we possibly can. And also, I want you to be aware of many of the people I interviewed to help this book come together were on the World3:19 Prayer Network. You can go to world prayer network dot org. World Prayer Network is another website, and we have interviews with newsmakers on these very topics every Wednesday night and every3:31 Sunday night, 8 PM eastern every Sunday night and every Wednesday night. Also, on our website, well versed world dot org, there is a place you can go and click on that. And every 1 of the3:43 scriptures, this has hundreds of scriptures, maybe several thousand scriptures in it. And if this reference is only given but not the scripture, you can click on that place and all the scriptures pop up for this.3:55 Now let's just talk about some of the presuppositions of this book, and then we're gonna get right into it. I want you to be aware that our presupposition is number 1, there is a God and we're not him. Number 2, GodBiblical Presuppositions for Governance 4:06 loves us so much. He put in a book the the very principles the very principles that run our nation. He put in that the principles not just for our personal life, family life, congregational life,4:18 but for our civil governance as well. And if we will take the time to read what the word of God says, it will show us how our national life should be, how our community life would be, what a4:30 difference it could be if we would just follow the word of God. I grew up in a home where we talked about the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss, politics and theology, politics and religion. That's what we talked4:41 about almost all the time. When I was age 9, I was happened to be watching television, age 9, August the thirteenth 19 56. And I was watching the Democratic National Convention, And4:53 it wasn't a political bug bit me, it was a governmental anointing came upon me. And from that moment to the present, I've watched the news almost every day, specifically for5:05 issues of civil governance, caring deeply what God is doing, what he's showing how a government is supposed to function. This is not political. This is biblical.5:17 That's what we're talking about. It's God who came up with the idea of government. It's God who establishes nations. As we work through these these pages, we try to be try to figure5:29 out what are the policies, who are the candidates, what what are the political parties, what are those things that come the closest to identifying with scriptural truth? We recognize5:41 political parties, candidates, policies are flawed. People are flawed. But our goal is the can we think scripturally? And then we go we use the scripture as the standard by which we look at all5:52 public policy. The scripture becomes the the standard by which we look at candidates or we look at political parties. And another thing I wanna add, 1 of the presuppositions, we know we're not advocating a6:04 theocracy. What is a theocracy? Theos, god. Chrissy means ruled. Democracy, demote people. Chrissy rule. Democracy, the rule of the people. But theocracy is a rule of God6:16 ruling a country. How exactly would that happen? Well, ancient Israel had a theocracy. Certain countries do. I don't know how a theocracy would function here, so we're not advocating that. We are advocating in a6:27 constitutional republic that we find ourselves in. Every serious follower of Jesus Christ be equipped with the word of God. Be filled with his spirit. Saturate6:39 their spirit with the word of God. Link their tongue up to that saturated spirit. Speak the word of God to the situations we face now. Articulate public policy that is6:51 in conformity with God's word, God's way, God's will. God is in is intense. It'll be absolutely transformational. So we try to analyze the principles of scripture and7:03 how they apply to public policy and how we can increase the blessing and tranquility in our communities that God desires for us. Also, another presupposition.7:16 I don't separate the Old Testament from the New Testament. They're 1 and the sameness, 1 continuous flow. There is old covenant, new covenant. I understand that. I wish we didn't have the words Old Testament and New7:26 Testament. It makes old something you throw away. New is something you use. No. No. No. No. The old covenant, the Tanakh, the Hebrew scriptures are loaded with profoundly rich7:38 constructs for every aspect of life, including governance. And so we take seriously all of the Bible. Another presupposition, we actually believe and acknowledge that evil7:50 exists. You say, well, Jim, why wouldn't you say that? Isn't that true for everybody? No. It's actually not. Some on the left or the liberals seem to act like evil doesn't exist. There is the demonic8:02 force. There is the satanic realm. There is evil in our will world, and we acknowledge that. And also, we function with a biblical anthropology. What is that? We believe some8:14 people say, oh, well, man is inherently good. Some men inherently evil. We believe God created humankind in his image. Sin entered in and broke that relationship with God.8:26 And Jesus Christ came back and redeemed humanity, and his spirit fills them. And that makes all the difference. We have a biblical understanding of the nature of humanity. And lastly, I wanna pay tribute asTeam Tribute and Closing Prayer 8:38 we end this first video. I wanna pay tribute to the people who helped me write this. There was a team of about 15 people I put together. God help me put this team together. And this team of people came together8:50 and did enormous amount of work. They helped me think through things. We talked through things. They did writing. They did research. They did so much. Without this team, there would have been no book. Now the person who9:01 was the leader of that team with me was a man named Frank Kayser. His name appears right here. Without Frank Kayser, there would not have been a book. He's a retired physicist, brilliant Bible9:13 scholar. This man gave tremendous amount of time to make this possible. I could not have done this book without Frank Kaeser. And then I could not have done the book without Frank Kaeser and the9:25 team that we put together. I just wanna acknowledge them very quickly. I'm just gonna say their names. I wish I had time to talk about them. I won't do that, but I at least want to mention their names because they made9:35 this book possible. Audria Taylor Decker, Gary Cass, Kevin McGarry, Bill Wells, Anne Giles, Joe and Franco, Gabriel Joseph, Aaron9:47 Menengo, David Legates, Bethany Cosma, Kurt Fuqua, Rima Labo, Pam Holloway. In addition to that, Pam Prior was consistently helping9:59 me through this process. She was an enormous help. She was helping me find members of this team. The vice president of Liberty University, Glenn Clary, said, Jim, you gotta get this book written. You need it10:11 you have this book well versed. That's good. We've got to get the next book out. He wrote me out a check for 10000, said, here. Will that be an incentive? Get this book going. And we went to work putting together the10:22 team to write this book. And above all, my wonderful wife, Rosemary Schindler Garlow, who allowed me to be buried away hundreds and hundreds of hours writing this10:34 book. A constant support, a constant encouragement. After each 1 of these session, these 60 videotapes we're gonna go through right now, after each 1 of them, she will cap each 1 with10:45 prayer, praying specifically over the topic that I've covered. So now that I'm ending this first 1, she's gonna come and pray in just a moment. But remember our goal, our goal through this whole10:57 thing is to move us all from being culturally woke to biblically awake.11:04 Let's pray. Heavenly father, a nation is blessed whose God is the Lord, and blessed are the people that he has chosen for his inheritance. God, we trust in your sovereign power11:16 knowing that you can bring good even out of evil. We pray that your kingdom, your will, your purposes will be done in our nations and that our nations would reflect your character to the11:27 world. In Jesus' name, amen.11:31 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey. Don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Introducing Reversed: From Woke to Awake4:00 Biblical Presuppositions for Governance8:35 Team Tribute and Closing Prayer
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